Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-19

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The prices at which ab,e-bodied men
can be secured vary, but do not exceed
500 & yesr. Women need be paid but
$50 8 year, children work fer their board
and clothes. As farmers have TO pa2
American hands SIS to $40 & month, they
are glad 10 get strong and healthy for
eigners Injured &c hard work toT SIS or less
8 month.
IN the circular which Parsons sends GU.
20 the farmers in search of customers sre
these statements: "Patience is necessary,
especially when you want to use them
Che green hands, clone. on: best help
has been Danes. We, from choice, nix
The different nationelities. Being poor
ard ignorant Of our language and WAYS
thy expect 10 work cheap. To s1me this
is no disadvantage, il fsct, we would
rather have them ignorant of the
knowledge of cur lab1rerS, some OF
them, for such wisdom often proves
foolIshDes5 TO their employers.
"Price Of help about SO or Sl2 for the
season, SIS for June and July, Sc
for isll and winter, SIS to Sl25 g
year, depending upon capacity. Some
learn very quick.
"If you have 3 tereneut-two rooms
will generally ans Ner-a family is much
tie cheapest, IS you eau pay them from
the farm; they are more ap:to stay; wife
and children will work in; price from Sl5
| to S25; board themselves. II house ser
vsnt is wanted man and vile are the
cheapest il you have work for him"
SUCCESSFUL AID PROFITABLE.
| MIR. Parsons says that he dpds the bust
ness q successful and profitable one.
| About one hundred persons pas5 through
his hand month, and he has put out over
| five thousand men, women and children
in various parts of New England. At sn
! average commission of 81 head his in
come would be about 500 month.
Daues, he says, he prefers among the
nationahties selected, MS list including
| B0hemi2ns, Poles, Russians and SWedes.
He draws the line on Irishmen, who are
! too independent Tor him and unwilling to
| sell themselves under contract to work
wherever he may send them. AS mat
ter OF course, he bars out any man who
| speaks English, for they ere likely 10 fad
gu. too much about American customs
and the price OF labor here.
The men when placed out on the
farms have to be taught every mament
for while, but they soon pick up the
methods Of farm work, and in 8 years
time can 90 as much work as the native
farm hands and DO it well. The farmers
value this class OF help. They DON'T
"&ick" and they don't "talk back"
Trey don't hang around liquor saloons,
because they don't know where they are,
80 they are not often drunk, and, best of
al, they don't strike fer higher wages.
The intelligent, observing ones rarely
stick by their employers sfter their con-
tracts expire.
MAKING TRAMP5 AND PAUPERs.
Said q NorthamtOn man TO Z Herald re-
porter: "Most Of these newly landed
IN IMMIGRANTS eet disguised sEd are home
sick for the frss few weeks. They are
disappointed. The rosy yarns OF the
oily tOngued interpreters and runners IN
New York have faded. Some run sway,
trAmping to New York or elsewhere TO
find fellow countrymen and hear sgsiE
their own language.
Very many unpleasant stories are sh0at
in those two upper counties s50ut the
treatment Of these ighOvaut, hard w0rk-
ing Immigrants. Cas- Hooker, q Be-
herman, says that he found one man vino
mad worked five yrs Witb0at pay, nav
ing been made - believe INIT the lazy OF
the country made MIN liable 20 severe
punishment If fe dared 20 SIX for wages
Il IS said th&t /. is 2 10. uncommon
thi2g for thu employers 20 keep the meu
without sufficient clothing, 20 prevent
their runnlnG sway.
SIZED Up AT CASTLE GARDEN.
TIE Herald reporter called as Castle
Garden yesterday or Superintendent
Connolly, Of the Labor Bureau, and asked
him 1bOpt Parsons.
81 know hlm-I know him." seid Mr..
Connolly. Gle il ska ard l. fraud.
We haven't SLOWED him in here for two
years now. He can get no men here a.
Castle Garden. II we know CT sny CT the
Immigrants going with him we tel them
the nature 0f his contract and his work.
But we don't get much chance, for Fitz-
patrick's runners, with their badges,
scare and wheedle the immigr8 It's away
to Little Castle Garden SO soon as ever
they walk out into Battery Park.
eyes, we have known him and the way
he operates fer several years. we would
like TO stop such work es that 4 we could.
He is the largest trader cow IA contract
foreign labor We know Of.
an is not bad thing for the lmmi-
grants to so out On the New England
farms If they 90 rightly and sre properly
cared for. This week l received letter
tom West Randolph, VT, asking me if
We could send some Of the laborers up
there 10 the farms, dIvatipg it from the
west. tAll the Vermont boys sre becom-
ing lawyers, doctors and merchants the
writer said, and tie cid felix's are left
alone on tie farms, with no one to till
them We get these letters constantly.
"But there's no such conTect system,
with low wages and SHINING the ignorant
hard working immigrants, like this OF
Parsons. l wish the Herald would e1-
press it. The people in his own town
dol't understand it. They think he acts
in COLLISION with US end for US too. Some
one sent me northampton Herald o!
June l, 1887, with this note in it: 'Mr
Cnarles 7. Parsons carried back his last
lot Of Puics to New York, and the suthor-
ties OF CIstle Garden, who deceived both
Inc immigrants and Mr.. Parsons, did the
square thing By paying the expenses of
the trip
"Could anything be more absurd? One
would think thzt he was an sgent for the
4 commissioners Of Emigration and took
surplus labor ct special contracts. l
wonder whist he tells Northampton peo-
ple2s